SF News 49ers Forced to Notify Nearly 21,000 People That They Had Their Personal Data Obtained by Hackers The names and Social Security Numbers of nearly 21,000 people got into the wrong hands, as the 49ers quietly acknowledged in notifications to those folks that their information was breached in a February ransomware attack against the team.
SF News Trial Underway for Guy Who Allegedly Threatened to Kill Scott Wiener Over Vaccine Legislation State Senator Scott Wiener introduced a bill that would allow teens to get vaccinated without parental consent; which led to an anti-vaxxer saying “expect a visit from me and my rifle,” which led to that fellow now being on trial on eight felony counts.
SF News Oakland Settles for $250K With Two George Floyd Protesters, Agrees to Not Use Explosives on Demonstrators Two demonstrators from a June 2020 George Floyd protest won a quarter million dollars after being shot with rubber bullets, and the Oakland Police Department has agreed to not use “explosive grenades on peaceful crowds.”
SF News 35-Year-Old Restaurant Phuket Thai Closed After Building Fire; Fundraiser Launched For Displaced Tenants A major apartment building fire on Wednesday at Divisadero and Haight displaced 12 residents, some of them low-income and/or elderly — and a fundraiser has been launched to help them out. Also, the ground-floor restaurant, Phuket Thai, is likely to remain closed for a long while.
SF News Convicted Real Estate Investor Victor Makras’s Son Trying to Open Pot Shop In Ingleside Just after SF real estate magnate Victor Makras was found guilty of bank fraud, we learn his son is trying to turn over a new leaf with a proposed Ingleside-Mission Terrace cannabis dispensary.
SF News SFPD Offers $25K Reward For Information In Case of Homeless Man Whose Sleeping Bag Was Set On Fire San Francisco police are offering a $25,000 reward in the hopes of solving a cold case from last fall — a homicide in which a homeless man's sleeping bag was set on fire in the Mission District.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Police Release Photo of Suspects In A's Game Oral Sex Case Why did Oakland police release an image of the faces of the two people who were seen having oral sex at an A's game?; another elderly nursing home resident has died after possibly ingesting something; and the OPD busted an illegal casino.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Farewell, San Francisco Newspaper Racks The CDC has authorized Omicron-specific booster vaccines, C.W. Nevius is moving to Napa, and many of those big green newspaper racks all over town are being removed.
SF Politics Concealed Gun Bill Fails In California Assembly A bill designed to add new layers of restrictions to gun permitting laws in California in the wake of the Supreme Court's recent ruling in a New York case just failed to pass in the Assembly, coming in just two votes short.
SF News City of Oakland Will Incinerate the 1,200 Pounds of Dead Fish That Have Turned Up in Lake Merritt There’ll be a big fish fry in Oakland, but not the good kind. The toxic algal bloom that has killed literally tons of fish in Bay Area waters is leading to Oakland Public Works incinerating the 1,200 pounds of dead fish that were floating in Lake Merritt.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink St. Francis Fountain Is For Sale; Owners Hope For No Closure During Transition The Mission's beloved, 104-year-old diner St. Francis Fountain is on the market and its owners for the last two decades are hoping to find someone to take over the business without having to close in between.
Business & Tech Yes Indeed, Twitter Is Finally Getting That Edit Button Starting Today (For Some) The long-demanded, recently rumored edit button is finally a reality on Twitter, though it’s going to roll out slowly, and you’ll only be able to edit the tweet within the first 30 minutes after you post it.
SF News Oakland Police Release Photo of Car Seen Leaving Scene of Triple Homicide The Oakland Police Department is seeking help from the public in finding a suspect vehicle in last weekend's triple-homicide in West Oakland.
SF News Thursday Morning What’s Up: Big Heat Wave Day on the Way Another apartment fire has displaced a dozen on Divisadero Street, someone set a bunch of trash cans on fire along the Embarcadero last night, and some of the East Bay may see temperatures tip above 100 degrees today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Judge Throws Out Boudin Lawsuit Against Serial ADA Suit Filer A local judge has tossed a lawsuit brought by Boudin and Gascon against a San Diego law firm that files the majority of ADA complaint suits, a nine-year-old boy was wounded in an Oakland freeway shooting, and SF's gallery scene takes a hit.
SF News Muni Fans Losing Their Lunch Over Lunchables Ad Blitz, Now Wrapped Around Buses All Over Town Social media is going crackers over a very cheesy saturation ad campaign spreading takeover Lunchables ads all over Muni buses, and some people just don’t have the appetite for this.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Hip Hop Festival Hiero Day Returns for 10th Annual Celebration Monday, But Really All Weekend Multi-platinum Oakland native Keyshia Cole headlines Monday’s 10th annual Hiero Day, with Mistah F.A.B. and of course Hieroglyphics in the mix too, but this year the festival has events all Labor Day weekend long.
SF News San Francisco to Go Full Steam Ahead With Second Monkeypox Shots The San Francisco Department of Public Health announced Wednesday that everyone who got their first monkeypox shots more than 28 days prior can start getting their second doses next week.
SF Politics Assembly Passes Newsom’s ‘CARE Court’ Proposal to Let Judges Determine Mental Health Plans San Francisco would be one of the first counties under the jurisdiction of Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court bill, which is cruising through the state legislature with big momentum, despite questions whether it’s just ineffective and hostile bureaucracy.
SF News Activists Still Occupying Shuttered Oakland Elementary School, District Vows to Crack Down An East Oakland elementary school that was closed down in June has drawn a months-long sit-in protest and occupation, but the school district insists they've had enough of all this, claiming one occupier was carrying “what appears to be a firearm.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Many SF Restaurant and Bar Parklets Could Be Gone By Spring With new rules, mandated alterations, and fees looming, you can expect to see some of San Francisco's plethora of pandemic parklets disappear in the next six to eight months.
SF News Two-Alarm Fire In Bret Harte Neighborhood Leaves One Firefighter Injured, Three Displaced A fire broke out at a home in the Bret Harte neighborhood, south of the Bayview District early Wednesday, and it has caused damage to at least two homes and left one firefighter injured.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Updated Boosters From Pfizer & Moderna Cleared By FDA The FDA has cleared both Pfizer's and Moderna's updated COVID vaccines targeting new variants, a mechanical bridge into the Delta in Solano County is stuck in the "up" position, and asking rents in SF are up 11% since last August.
SF News Day Around the Bay: We Appear to Have the First U.S. Monkeypox Death A missing Solano Community College grad has been found, people are still choosing to swim in algae-infested waters, and it appears we have the first confirmed monkeypox death in the United States.
Arts & Entertainment A New Bushman Has Arrived to Terrify Unsuspecting Fisherman’s Wharf Tourists Again There’s a new Bushman in town — with a far better costume and a powerful Youtube presence — resurrecting a legendary SF street performance act that dates back more than 40 years.
